Ayotte was robbed, and Rep. Frank Gunita robbed of his seat as well and President Trump robbed of 4 electoral votes.
Ayotte didn’t do herself any favors with her squishiness. Guinta had his own problems. I expect Che Guevera Porter will be ousted again in 2018. That poor witch ain’t never going to accrue seniority at this rate. I would suggest NH Dems not keeping putting up a Communist nutter for this seat, but then I realize they don’t have any non-nutters anymore who could win a primary with their hardcore ultraleft base. And they criticize our side for being purists.
Hillary campaign staffers encouraged their Mass.- and Vermont-based volunteers during the NH primary to take advantage of NH’s same-day registration and claim to have just moved into the state so as to vote in the primary. But surely the number of people who voted illegally in NH in the general election must have been 0, because Democrats have never found a single instance of voter fraud anywhere in the nation. Right?
I hope that NH gets rid of its stupid same-day voter registration, although surely Democrats will call such change in law Racist, since that’s what they call any attempt to make it more difficult to commit voter fraud. And the Senate should investigate the 2016 election returns from NH, and unseat Maggie Hassan if there’s evidence that her election was fraudulent. If the Senate deems that illegal votes provided the margin of victory in the NH Senate election, it should declare a vacancy, permit NH Governor Sununu to fill it with a temporary appointment (I would recommend Ayotte, who was robbed of the seat), and have NH hold a special election for the term that ends in January 2023.
If that occurs, it wouldn’t be the first time that the U.S. Senate declares a NH Senate seat vacant because of inconclusive election results. When Republican Louis Wyman was declared the winner of the 1974 NH Senate election by 2 votes, the heavily Democrat Senate initially didn’t seat anyone, and later declared the seat vacant. This permitted NH’s Republican governor to make a temporary appointment (Cotton Norris, the GOP Senator whose retirement had led to the close election), and NH held a special election for the remainder of the term. This time, Democrat John Durkin (who had been declared the loser by 2 votes the prior November) won handily, and held the seat until January 1981 (he was defeated in Nov. 1980).